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> $100 isn't cheap when you're poor. I meant if they somehow got ahold of one (community program, kind person from across town, local school getting rid of the
by TimTheTinker 6y ago
> $100 isn't cheap when you're poor.
I meant if they somehow got ahold of one (community program, kind person from across town, local school getting rid of them, etc.). The discussion was more about whether a child in a poor family who gets one can actually use it without any extra hardware, not how affordable $100 is to a family in poverty.
Most parents in poverty don't have the brain space to think about buying one of these for their kids, much less the $100 it costs.
- yodelshady 6y ago> Most parents in poverty don't have the brain space to think about buying one of these for their kids. You're absolutely right, and that's why the pi foundation includes schools as a target market. Schools deliver the greatest, and certainly the most equally distributed, value, and cheap computers mean more money to spend on that brain space.
- thw0rted 6y agoRight, the point is not that poor families can afford a $100 computer, rather that the poor family's school can buy more $100 computers to hand out than they can $200 Chromebooks or $400 iPads.